Outside the Gate

America America You better listen to me I love America I can survive the rat race, honey Time is money and money is honey, honey My megabucks, your symmetrical beauty Together we can serve the nation - yeah! The quality of life filled us all with pride America And as I watched I just cried and cried How I love America I will buy you rich perfumes And we will eat the finest foods A mansion in New England A silver dollar for every child Where everybody has got their price They'll sustain our way of life You and I will fly to Rio I'll make you feel like a millionaire I can survive the rat race, honey Time is money and money is honey, honey My megabucks, your symmetrical beauty Together we can serve the nation - yeah! The quality of life filled us all with pride America And as I watched I just cried and cried How I love America West is best and might is right And with our allies - fight the good fight A first class, five star enterprise Now everybody's got to compromise My moral code's on overload Liberty still takes its toll Take a look at the losers wasting in the bars Where they cut their losses! I can survive the rat race, honey Time is money, and money is honey, honey My megabucks, your symmetrical beauty Together we can serve the nation - yeah! The quality of life filled us all with pride America And as I watched I just cried and cried How I love America There were fireworks in the Gulf There was champagne at home - How I love America But showbiz and Hollywood still shouted out - America America How I love America America How I love America...

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

The sun is setting in on England's green and pleasant land At dusk I leave the town to tear the fences down And I ignore the voice of education sighing and crying in my head In the light of every dream, we're all coming home Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land Memories of gentlemen and cricket fade away in the hot summer But still they carry out traditions of the past without a meaning In the light of every dream, we're all coming home Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land New towns and concrete towerblocks, inhuman as they stand And did those feet in ancient times, or was it just our imaginations? In the light of every dream, we're all coming home Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

Province, state and country The great divide has come Ten percent shall prosper To them the kingdom come I can see trends behind trends I can see Jack has bought a business Pete inherits home Jill has got a trust fund They've all been buying fun I can see trends behind trends I can see Stay one jump ahead Jack's alright he's a predator He'll give you three good reasons that'll change your mind 1. You can't afford the B.U.P.A. health scheme So when you get sick you're going to die 2. You can't afford to buy your own property When the rent increases you're on the street 3. You can't afford the bills and pills you need You've got to get them cause they're going to get you Anger is your friend now, resentment is the key Patience as a virtue so be accessory Or you can always be a victim A victim of the circumstance if you like? Stay one jump ahead Stay one jump ahead Stay one jump ahead ---------------------------------- Extended mix Province, state and county The great divide has come Ten percent shall prosper To them the kingdom come I can see trends behind trends I can see Jack has bought a business Pete inherits home Jill has got a trust fund They've all been buying fun I can see trends behind trends I can see Stay one jump ahead The Whitehouse played the game their own way Their foreign policies gave me the shits I didn't understand until I read St. John's acoount of Apocalypse American heroes Colonel Oliver North Everybody says he was just doing his job Arms for the hostages, it's plain to see Why the very next day they bombed Tripoli Terrorists were everywhere Blowing Greenpeace ships right in the air Wall Street crashed and the hurricane Tore the trees from their roots, derailed the trains London twon ground to a halt And everybody said it wasn't our fault Waether goes crazy Nature goes crazy Man goes crazy Nature goes crazy Stay one jump ahead Incredible induction of such awesome energy The sound satisfaction signify Geordie celebrity Taking the guitar playing like he's a killer He doesn't really matter cos you know he's gonna bill up All the sound resounding into your brain You know so you can never run away he;s pumping like a train Chiffity Chaff I'm goind down the track I can do as I feel cos he never takes the slack The rhythm that's riding is taking you much further The posse in the house yo they say I'm Kruger Murder that they give you will tak you on down Because he is the boss of the guitar sound Anger is your friend now, resentment is the key Patience as a virtue so be accessary Or you can always be a victim A victim of the circumstance if you like? Stay one jump ahead

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

In bleak and empty places we can watch from a greater distance - the credulous delighting in every nation Don't lose your sense of humour, entertain the wildest thoughts We can walk for miles and miles without seeing anybody Some country rare and blessed away from this confusion No message for the masses only you and me The long winter is coming and instinct is telling me to fly towards the south I want to be in a place of beginnings, not endings! Forget all your belongings - leave the city, come unto the ends of the earth with me All our friends and relatives fell for neatly packaged policies And we shuddered at the headline, newsflash of the tensions in the Middle East You know as well as I do detente can't last forever Or overpopulation Me? I'd rather watch Peace of mind is my priority The long winter is coming and instinct is telling me to fly towards the south I want to be in a place of beginnings, not endings! Forget all your belongings - leave the city, come unto the ends of the earth The long winter is coming and instinct is telling me to fly towards the south I want to be in a place of beginnings, not endings! Forget all your belongings - leave the city, come unto the ends of the earth with me So listen I hear the Pied Piper, Pied Piper, Pied Piper

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

I hear I hear the calling Carry across the landscape I hear it echo from every city to every village upon the earth From every rooftop to every mountain Calling the faithful to find themselves A fire burning like precious water, the fire that drives me on and on Through hell I shall reach heaven I shall not resist the changes before me View the madness with perspective (the clock is ticking but time means nothing) So I ascend to the blinding light Then plummet to the thickest darkness (and I always tell myself how splendid is the adventure!) I can no longer see good or evil But worship polarity So do not trust the beggars that expose their poverty of spirit Bleating "I will follow" I heed I heed the calling Follow yourselves as leaders Arise, arise, stand upright and take pride in who and what you are Great changes are coming and you will be asked to identify yourself So run like a lion with an inexhaustible strength from world to world Let your work shine unto the ends of time yeah unto the ends of time

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

London, New York, Paris, Tokyo All is one with the multi-nationals Total monopolies I can sink or swim Adrenalin is rushing through every action Whole nations crave for release from the suspense And I explode in you, my beautiful obsession I've been dreaming all your nightmares Holocausts, inverted fantasies We build the tower, tower falls down All my dreams come true Sweet Jesus & Mohammed Disputes between the boys Whole nations crave for release from this suspense And I explode in you, my beautiful obsession Whole nations crave for release from the suspense And I explode in you, my beautiful obsession Whole nations crave for release from the suspense And I explode in you, my beautiful obsession

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

I was a tourist in the Andes On my way to Tiahuanaco Where the balance of a weeping god Faced east to the rising sun I looked out the window And all I could see Was the face of a girl She was looking at me She was begging for food Then I knew I had found The weeping god In the face of a child As she gestured with her fingers Her little brother followed suit And all I did was take my camera So the image never fades away I no longer saw the great gate of the sun Nor the dawn of time when our race had begun Just black eyes like starving dogs looking at me A weeping god was all I'd ever see And as I sat in contemplation beyond all charity Losing the magic and meaning of living (the earth and the stars these things are mine) And when they've drained the earth of all resources We'll face the music still For you and I shall be striking memories In the thoughts of our children's children I had arrived at my destination At the gate of the rising sun We shall again regain in sunset That balance that we left undone I stared at the shacks and the shanty town mess I couldn't help but to think of the West The balance was lost and my reason went wild As the weeping god came alive in the child And I began to weep And I remember, yeah The violation Determination came Determination, yeah Determination came Determination, yeah Determination, came...

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

In the morning as I come around Rub my eyes and look outside Watching, absorbing the underworld Reflections of a monstrous soul within Power stations empower gains This sickness called society I have identified the forces behind These changes that I see I put on my mask I walk down the path I go through the arch Outside the gate I have walked black lava fields Of the northern hemisphere I have traveled through the Andes range Across Pacific isles There is no escaping the waking world From that which is approaching us fast Salvation is drawn from our childhood dreams In lands of beauty untainted by cynicism I put on my mask I walk down the path I go through the arch Outside the gate He invokes entities vast and mindless! We shall taste unimaginable joys A thousand times greater than these And when the stars assume their rightful place Man liberates a mindless race Morals and laws shall be thrown aside Tap the millennial flame with pride Gaze with wonder, embrace your fate A madman looks outside the gate I put on my mask I walk down the path I go through the arch I close the gate

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026

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Province, state and country The great divide has come Ten percent shall prosper To them the kingdom come I can see trends behind trends I can see Jack has bought a business Pete inherits home Jill has got a trust fund They've all been buying fun I can see trends behind trends I can see Stay one jump ahead Jack's alright he's a predator He'll give you three good reasons that'll change your mind 1. You can't afford the B.U.P.A. health scheme So when you get sick you're going to die 2. You can't afford to buy your own property When the rent increases you're on the street 3. You can't afford the bills and pills you need You've got to get them cause they're going to get you Anger is your friend now, resentment is the key Patience as a virtue so be accessory Or you can always be a victim A victim of the circumstance if you like? Stay one jump ahead Stay one jump ahead Stay one jump ahead ---------------------------------- Extended mix Province, state and county The great divide has come Ten percent shall prosper To them the kingdom come I can see trends behind trends I can see Jack has bought a business Pete inherits home Jill has got a trust fund They've all been buying fun I can see trends behind trends I can see Stay one jump ahead The Whitehouse played the game their own way Their foreign policies gave me the shits I didn't understand until I read St. John's acoount of Apocalypse American heroes Colonel Oliver North Everybody says he was just doing his job Arms for the hostages, it's plain to see Why the very next day they bombed Tripoli Terrorists were everywhere Blowing Greenpeace ships right in the air Wall Street crashed and the hurricane Tore the trees from their roots, derailed the trains London twon ground to a halt And everybody said it wasn't our fault Waether goes crazy Nature goes crazy Man goes crazy Nature goes crazy Stay one jump ahead Incredible induction of such awesome energy The sound satisfaction signify Geordie celebrity Taking the guitar playing like he's a killer He doesn't really matter cos you know he's gonna bill up All the sound resounding into your brain You know so you can never run away he;s pumping like a train Chiffity Chaff I'm goind down the track I can do as I feel cos he never takes the slack The rhythm that's riding is taking you much further The posse in the house yo they say I'm Kruger Murder that they give you will tak you on down Because he is the boss of the guitar sound Anger is your friend now, resentment is the key Patience as a virtue so be accessary Or you can always be a victim A victim of the circumstance if you like? Stay one jump ahead

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 23, 2026